Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Dan Poulter announces his defection with an article in The Observer. Poulter was a health minister from 2012 to 2015. He says the Tories have “gone from being a pragmatic, centrist, centre-right party… [which] had a compassionate outlook on key issues” to “a nationalist party of the right, much more of what we see in Europe“. This one was kept quiet. There’s a high chance he’s not the last…
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Somerset councillors wasted an hour of a full council meeting yesterday on a motion from Labour and the Greens to evict international military technology company Elbit Systems from a council property because it supposedly supplies arms to the IDF. All prompted by protests from crazed activists…
Today they’ve had to apologise after Elbit got in touch to clarify that it does no such thing. Always worth checking the facts presented to you by raving quacks…
The Council would like to apologise and withdraw the statement that Elbit Systems UK Limited supplies military equipment to the Israeli Defence Forces or the Israeli Ministry of Defence. (4/4)
— Somerset Council (@SomersetCouncil) April 26, 2024
The motion was, of course, supported by the LibDem leadership. Maybe they could have spent the hour trying to work out how to avoid imposing a 10% increase in council tax. Somerset Council budget shortfall: £100 million…
It is Chris Stark’s last day on the job as Chief Executive of the net zero crusading organisation the Climate Change Committee – a publicly funded body which spent £4,541,779 in taxpayer money in the year 2021-2022. It seems his mission to fight climate change has extended outside the realms of just being the chief climate adviser to the government. Last month, Stark was advocating for heat pumps made by the private company Kensa…
In his pitch on behalf of the private company, Stark says this:
“We need a form of heat pump that will work for the people living in those buildings…Kensa I think have some of the most exciting technology and innovative approaches to how we might approach this challenge of buildings decarbonisation.”
There’s no mention of the Kensa group on Stark’s registered interests. A Stark conflict?
Politicians are nothing if not optimists. Andy Street has been firing out donation requests this week to Tory mailshot recipients, along with accompanying letter: “By contributing to my campaign, you can make a real difference to the outcome“. Not quite – six days before the election is a little too late…
Street has branded his campaign green and kept prominent Tories away. Donations are always helpful – Does he need to pay back arrears on his party account?
TalkTV began airing on the 25th April 2022. Two years later, it’s all over…
After Guido revealed it would scrap the expensive linear broadcast channel and switch to streaming and radio only, the day has finally come. TalkTV goes off air today. Onto the new heights of YouTube, where the live channel currently has 450 viewers…
Redundant staff are gathering at a local watering hole tonight to “say goodbye to the home of common sense” and “cry because it happened“. “Dress code: Grieving, but still f*ckable”…
Guido is told by a sceptical TalkTV insider: “These people have burned a s**t tonne of money and humiliated themselves. How on earth can they hold a party.” Sometimes it’s the only way…
